• System repeatedly restarting/crashing
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For the past few days, I've had problems ith my system constantly crashing ( BSOD ) or just automatically restarting itself. It crashed a total of 2 times day before last, 2 times yesterday, and about 4 times today. It seems to only happen when I'm playing Games. The first time it happened, Iwas playing Counter-Strike:Source and just froze up ( I usually get a freeze up every few months, so I passed it off ). It then crashed yesterday while I was playing Final Doom ( using Zdoom engine ) and also while I was testing Half-Life 2, after I tweaked with my contrast settings with ATI Tray Tools ( I removed it from my system as a first hand suspect. ) Today it's happened while I've been playing Doom again. I've run Passmark BurnInTest Pro ( V6.0 ) I've adjusted it to run 40 cycles on all my hardware, with it crashing after 15 or so minutes. I proceeded to continue running tests. But removing a single test each time. I managed to work my way down to my last 2 culprits, The GPU, and the RAM. I tested both of them together, and got a crash within 15 minutes.I then proceeded to test them seperately, and both completed all 50 cycles without a problem. Any Help? System Specs: Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHZ CPU ( old, I know ) 1280MB DDR Ram ( 1x 1GB, 1x 256MB ) 160GB Hard Disk Space ( 1x MAxtor 80GB, 1x Seagate 80GB ) 512MB Radeon HD 2400 Pro Sapphire Creative Labs Soundblaster live! 5.1 Windows XP Home SP3 32-BIT The video card has the latest drivers by Sapphire ( they modify them, due to the official ATI drivers not working with my card ) NOTE: Don't bother replying to tell me to upgrade my pc, I know the pc is old, I don't use it for heavy gaming, I play source games ( which run fine ). And use it for M$ Office for college. [editline]08:23PM[/editline] I tried turning on VPU Recover in the ATI CCC and re-ran the full test, my pc just froze up after 15 minutes, but my pointer was still moving... Anyone help with this? currently running the same test with VPU Recover disabled. [editline]08:30PM[/editline] Ok, I updated the drivers, and ran without the VPU recover option, the full system just reset itself. again.
Maybe something overheating? Use HWmonitor and check temps
Tried that everything running within decent temps ( all below 50C, except my cpu, which has always run at 55C-60C )
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